[coreboot] [PATCH]romfs: change the mechanism that builds the romtool utility

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Sat Apr 4 01:19:33 CEST 2009


On 04.04.2009 01:08, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:
>   
>> Patrick Georgi wrote:
>>     
>>> romtool per-build
>>>       
>> Is it too much for us to ask that the cbfs tool is built and
>> installed into the build system? I think that would be ok.
>>     
>
> that's a reasonable idea.
>
> Just tell people that the tool needs to be executable and in PATH
>   

Please don't. That will make incompatible changes for romtool
impossible. Just think of the child^Wpain we had with multiple lzma
implementations. v3 avoids the lzma problem by building lzma in the
build dir so we always know the lzma version.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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